Don’t panic, but there is a national biscuit crisis

Hold on to your Bourbons

In case you hadn’t already realised, the nation is currently in the midst of a national biscuit shortage.

How did this happen we hear you cry? To find this out, we have to look back to December 2015, when Storm Desmond flooded the UK’s biggest biscuit factory, aptly named ‘Biscuit Works’, in Carlisle.

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The damage was so bad, that they still haven’t got things back up and running. This means everything from McVitie’s, Go Ahead and Jacob’s biscuits are all starting to run low.

We could even see old favourites like bourbons, custard creams and ginger nuts completely disappear from our local supermarkets until mid-spring, with Sainsbury’s confirming they expect the shortage to last until April.

We completely understand how these people feel, what the hell are we going to dunk into our tea?

I can't believe there is UK wide ginger nut shortage! This is against my human rights, my biscuit human rights!!

But the powers that be are responded to our plight. The past two weeks have seen two cargo planes full of biscuits flown into South Yorkshire (where else?) in a bid to save our 3pm biscuit craving.

Dayle Hauxwell, cargo manager for the airport told Doncaster Free Press: "We’ve been delighted to welcome two flights from Emirates full of the nation’s favourite biscuits.”

So what does the Red team consider the nation's favourite biscuits?

You cannot beat a classic Bourbon. They were my favourite when I was five and they're still my favourite now. Just dunk in your cuppa (or glass of milk in summer) and it is heaven on earth. Samantha Harris, senior sub editor

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A plain old Custard Cream. You can split them in half and eat biscuit, then chew off the cream and then dunk rest of biscuit. Tanita Montgomery, art director

It’s got to be the Bourbon. Substantial enough to be generously dunked and with a deliciously melty middle – what’s not to love? Roanna Price, social media and fashion editor

Milk Chocolate Hobnobs – I mean, there is literally no biscuit better to dunk in a nice hot cup of tea, the way it all melts silkly in the mouth… Rebecca Hull, beauty assistant

A buttery rich, bendy soft shortbread with chewy raisins in. I’m literally salivating thinking about these. Or anything with quadruple chocolate chunks in it. In fact, almost any biscuit apart from a rich tea- which just make me want to cry with boredom. Lauren T Franks, style editor

Jaffa Cakes. Don't look at me like that, it's a biscuit, OK? And I won't hear another word about it. Sure, it's not dunker, but that's when I reach for a trusty chocolate digestive. Elinor Block, online fashion and beauty editor

Caramel digestive - all the chocolately, biscuity niceness of the classic digestive but with a chewy caramel centre. Ideal serving size- the whole packet. Megan Sutton, features intern

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